Entanglements
Subtitle: marking place in the field of religion
By: Russell T. McCutcheon
Publisher: Equinox
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Sheffield, UK; Bristol, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9781781790762; 9781781790779
Subjects: Religion; Religions; Religionswissenschaft
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 256-271) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1; title: Naming the Unnameable? Theological Language and the Academic Study of Religion (1990) -- 12 -- 2; title: Ideology and the Problem of Naming: A Reply (1991) -- 28 -- 3; title: Returning the Volley to William E. Arnal (1998) -- 43 -- 4; title: Of Strawmen and Humanists: A Reply to Bryan Rennie (1999) -- 51 -- 5; title: A Brief Response from a Fortunate Man (2000) -- 59 -- 6; title: Who Sets the Ground Rules? A Response to "Comparativism, Then and Now" (2000) -- 73 -- 7; title: Artifacts Not Relics: A Response to "Missing Links in the Study of Religion" (2000) -- 82 -- 8; title: Filling in the Cracks with Resin: A Response to John Burris's "Text and Context in the Study of Religion" (2003) -- 91 -- 9; title: A Few Words on the Temptation to Defend the Honor of a Text (2004) -- 118 -- 10; title: Theorizing the Politics of "Religion": Rejoinder to Robert A. Segal (2005) -- 128 -- 11; title: The Perils of Having One's Cake and Eating it Too: Some Thoughts in Response (2005) -- 136 -- 12; title: Theses on Professionalization (2007) -- 149 -- 13; title: A Response to Professor Robert Campany's "Chinese Religious History and its Implications for Writing 'Religion(s)" (2008) -- 162 -- 14; title: "As it Was in the Beginning..." The Modern Problem of the Ancient Self (2010) -- 177 -- 15; title: A Direct Question Deserves a Direct Answer: A Reply to Atalia Omer's "Can a Critic Be a Caretaker too?" (2012) -- 195 -- 16; title: Recovering the Human: A Tale of Nouns and Verbs: A Rejoinder to Ann Taves (2012) -- 214 -- 17; title: Three Dots and a Dash (2012) -- 225 -- 18; title: The Sacred is the Profane (2013)-- 237.